hello from my fancy new pc that i built myself!
it was a long and annoying process, and it's not quiiiite done yet, but i have windows 10 pro running and a couple games installed that i haven't actually tested yet oops
the last few bits and bobs are on the way and should arrive between this saturday and next saturday; im gonna dual boot with some flavor of linux and im gonna have a big storage drive and im gonna have a bunch of usb ports and stuff mounted in the drive bays and its gonna be great
so hey, does anyone have any suggestions for scripts and addons and stuff to make win10 more good and less bad? i already used MAS to activate it, so what other stuff is out there that i can do
@typhlosion our suggestions:
- OOSU10 (a control panel for some of windows's less desirable features)
- Openshell (gives you back the windows 7 style start menu and other stuff)
- Everything (search program that works way better than windows search)
- Core Temp (monitor your CPU temperature, can put the temperature in the system tray)
- Irfanview (basic no-frills image viewer that supports even some weird formats)
- notepad++ (it's notepad, but good)
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@typhlosion
- VLC media player (it's VLC. you probably know it)
- Resilio Sync (peer-to-peer file syncing between computers)
- CPU-Z (get information on your hardware, good for if you need to troubleshoot something)
- ShareX (powerful, but simple and easy to use screenshot and screen recording tool, can bind to a hotkey)
- Wincompose (lets you set up compose sequences for arbitrary characters that you can actually remember, unlike alt codes)
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@typhlosion can offer more general utilities on request, these are just the ones we would think of as essentials
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@Hearth thanks, these are great recs
thank you for reminding me to grab vlc and wincompose, lmao. i prefer imageglass over irfanview, i dont remember why, ill probably end up grabbing both and comparing
resilio sync might be redundant because im already planning on turning my old pc into a SMB network fileserver but thats good to have in my back pocket
more utilities we find useful, but not essential
@typhlosion
- qbittorrent (it's a torrent client, enough said. has all the features of μtorrent without being μtorrent)
- yt-dlp gui (click a button and download the video at the youtube url currently in your clipboard. works on some non-youtube things too)
- freac (convert audio between formats and bitrates, and rip CDs)
- mp3tag (manage ID3 tags on your mp3 files. Make that one track show up on your phone as its name and not "track 27.mp3")
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more utilities we find useful, but not essential
@typhlosion
- FormatFactory (looks really suspicious, actually harmless and pretty useful. Converts media between formats--video, audio, and images)
- Process Explorer (what? task manager is evolving!)
- DisplayFusion (lets you have window snapping! and some other neat features. Paid version has more features but you get wndow snapping for free)
- HxD (sometimes you just need a hex editor. HxD is the one we use for those times.)
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@typhlosion honestly we just forgot about it! thought we recommend wiztree over windirstat unless you're running it on a disk you suspect is damaged or has malformed data on it--wiztree runs way faster because it just looks at what the filesystem says is there, not what's actually there
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